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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Charles Casillo - Outlaw: The Lives and Careers of John Rechy at Epinions.com
		Rechy was the never-named hustler in City of Night with a raving need for men to desire while denying to himself and anyone else that he was gay and desired sex with men.
		And so on, though Rechy is proud as a peacock about his artful structuring of his experiences in these three novels, and is as enamored with his prose artistry as with the image in the mirror he used to kiss every morning...
		Rechy long rejected identification as "gay" and now rejects categorization as a "gay writer." The books he has written that do not center on homosexuality have had limited commercial and critical success, while the books about hard-bodied young men who seek validation from gay worshippers continue to sell and to be read.
	www.epinions.com /content_103148129924 (1371 words)

	Lust Magazine - What's tucked away in "The Locked Drawer"? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rechy skillfully juxtaposes his street life with newspaper clippings and biting cultural analysis to successful effect overall, though at first it may seem somewhat disjointed and difficult.
		Rechy’s “promiscuous rage” is a reaction to societal and police oppression; his rationale seems to be: they hate us because we have sex, so let’s fuck and fuck and fuck and fuck.
		Rechy may not be wholly Satanic in his aims, but his carnal defiance and willingness to shed light on hypocrisy are admirable and make The Sexual Outlaw well worth the read.
	www.sataniclust.com /tld_book_sexualoutlaw_rechy.htm (606 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Rechy, John
		Rechy studied journalism at Texas Western College and the New School for Social Research in New York before serving in Germany in the U.S. Army.
		Rechy's reputation as a gay writer rests primarily on City of Night, which documents the wanderings of a nameless male hustler from El Paso, to New York, Los Angeles, and New Orleans.
		Rechy will most likely be remembered in the tradition of gay male writing as a brutal and lyrical chronicler of the pre-Stonewall sexual underworld.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/rechy_j.html (937 words)

	Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Rechy John
		John Rechy's "City Of Night" is a wistful, moving, ultimately very sad account of a young man's erratic journey through the now-vanished Homosexual subculture of America's cities in the late 1950's, early 1960's.
		Rechy is masterful at creating an oninous mood, employing the fierce Santa Ana winds of Los Angeles, the raging fires in the city, the approach of the night to arouse a sense of foreboding.
		John Rechy, whose previous novels include 4th Angel, City of Night and The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez: A Novel, is back with this retelling of the stories of the fallen women of history.
	www.geometry.net /authors_bk/rechy_john.html (5569 words)

	John Rechy: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_rechy.htm (387 words)

	Powell's Books - City of Night by John Rechy
		Bold and inventive in his account of the urban underworld of male prostitution, Rechy is equally unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling "youngman" and his search for self-knowledge within the neon-lit world of hustlers, drag queens, and men on every kind of make.
		Rechy writes in an authentic jive-like slang: the nightmare existence is explored with a clarity not often clouded by sentimentality and self-pity.
		John Rechy is the recipient of the PEN-USA West's Lifetime Achievement Award (he was the first novelist to be awarded the prize) and the Publishing Triangle's William Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award.
	www.powellsbooks.com /cgi-bin/biblio?show=Trade%20Paper:Sale:0802130836:6.98 (408 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Wild Things
		Rechy is best known as the author of City of Night, the groundbreaking novel whose hustler protagonist was more wounded angel than Pasolini psychopath.
		The lady willingly complies (natch), but her subsequent accounts of myriad couplings are nearly all broken off in mid-gasp -- by annoying questions from Madame Bernice, by annoying clanks of plot machinery, by enemies of the lady, human and divine; by that damn peacock.
		Which is a shame, because Rechy writes gracefully, and sometimes poignantly, of the fate of fallen women over the centuries.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/reviews/babylon.htm (701 words)

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		John Rechy, 69, is "a hero to some, a villain to othersbest of all, an icon," said Benjamin Saenz, UTEP creative writing instructor.
		Rechy's partner and his family were among those gathered to honor the talented author.
		Rechy is also the recipient of two coveted Lifetime Achievement Awards: PEN-USA-West's 1997 Lifetime Achievement Award and The Publishing Triangle's William Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement.
	www.epcc.edu /elcon/102303n1.htm (272 words)

	Alibris: John Rechy
		Rechy reinvents the life of Hollywood's most glamorous legend as he tells theenthralling story of a young woman's attempt to discover her heritage and thetrue identity of her parents.
		Rechy's novel presents a day in the lives of a group of gay men in 1981, before the AIDS crisis but during the legendary Santa Ana winds, which fan the flames of violence.
		In Bodies and Souls, Rechy paints a portrait of modern Los Angeles, "the most spiritual and physical of cities", where we meet characters like Amber, a porn superstar; Manny Gomez, a Chicano caught up in the punk-rock scene; and Dave Clinton, an aging male stripper.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/John_Rechy (532 words)

	Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
		Rechy champions the works of these outlaw authors and others, such as Gore Vidal and Bret Easton Ellis, along with actors and even bodybuilders in these always provocative and often quite funny reviews, commentaries, lectures, and memoirs.
		It is Rechy’s habit to pull no punches when exposing those he thinks are undermining or disvaluing his personhood as a gay man. He skewers homophobic and pompous politicians, heterosexual directors who demean gay and lesbian life, and actors like Tom Cruise who enforce their heterosexuality through court rulings.
		Rechy’s nonfiction succeeds through his ability to engage the critical topics of the time, along with the unflinching moral stance he adopts.
	www.glreview.com /12.4-luckenbill.php (901 words)

	Salon Books \| "The Coming of the Night" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		More than three decades have passed since John Rechy presented himself to American readers as the cartographer of homosexual abandon in his first novel, "City of Night." Now a respectable teacher of literature at UCLA and a winner of PEN West's Lifetime Achievement Award, Rechy has returned to the abject territory of the night.
		Though Rechy regularly appears on the list of this country's best gay writers, his work is fundamentally at war with the current buffed and blow-dried gay rights movement.
		Even so, Rechy is a substantial artist, and he addresses what few of the slicker gay literati have even bothered to consider: the question of fate.
	www.salon.com /books/review/1999/09/08/rechy/index.html (608 words)

	He said, she said: when L.A. writers John Rechy and Felicia Luna Lemus got together, the fun was in the fighting - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		John, your book, The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens (Grove, $24, October), is modeled on [the bawdy 18th-century picaresque novel] Tom Jones.
		Rechy [finishing]: Now we've got to give Felicia equal time to read her blurb.
		Rechy: A phrase used to shove gay and lesbian writers away from contaminating heterosexual literature.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_Sept_30/ai_110917241 (816 words)

	Amazon.ca: Outlaw: The Lives and Careers of John Rechy: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		John Rechy's 1963 debut, City of Night, a thinly fictionalized account of his adventures in male hustling from one end of the country to the other, was a milestone in American gay literature.
		Charles Casillo's biography "Outlaw: John Rechy" proves that since the 1963 publication of City of Night, Rechy's life pales in comparison to the lives explored by his daring and complex protagonists and supporting characters.
		I was aware of John Rechy, as an author, but this book allows us a view into Rechy the man, with his inner turmoil and obsessions.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1555837344 (1793 words)

	Amazon.ca: Beneath the Skin: The Collected Essays: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Though one of the goals is to demonstrate Rechy's versatility beyond the homosexual themes (from AIDS to homosexuality in film) that made him famous, too many of the wider-ranging pieces are not especially noteworthy.
		Rechy tends to be more energetic and persuasive when he turns to queer subjects; one prominent homophobic attack on his first novel, City of Night, still rankles 40 years later and is the subject of two articles.
		When John Rechy broke out in 1963 as the bestselling author of City of Night, his novel about the underworld of gay male prostitution, he became a source for provocative commentary on sex, homosexuality, and culturally transgressive literature for publications as varied as the New York Times, The Nation, the Advocate, and Forum.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0786714050 (425 words)

	Rigoberto González - Beneath the Skin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Although Rechy is forthcoming about his lifestyle as “a writer who was writing intimately about hustling,” he’s much too modest about his own artistic accomplishments.
		The moment of irony is well taken, but Rechy will be remembered for his body of work, not necessarily for the work of his body.
		Rechy praises Gore Vidal, one of his literary heroes, as “a writer who dares to be intelligent, original, challenging.” The same should be said about John Rechy.
	www.rigobertogonzalez.com /051505.htm (498 words)

	1963 in literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure).
		The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.
		John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1963_in_literature (278 words)

	John (Francisco) Rechy Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		John Rechy has devoted some of his closely autobiographical writings to the exploration and presentation of derelict and homosexual life in the United States.
		These views summarize the basic impact of Rechy's reports on the desperate agony of social outcasts in the midst of a repressive but "lost" society.
		In Rechy's work the plight of the outcast is only an extreme version of the essentially "lost" nature of the human condition.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-francisco-rechy-dlb (206 words)

	Amazon.fr : City of Night: Livres en anglais: John Rechy,Rechy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When John Rechy's explosive first novel--now a classic--appeared in 1963, it became a national best-seller and ushered in a new era of gay fiction.
		Rechy writes in an authentic jive-like slang: the nightmare existence is explored with a clarity not often clouded by sentimentality and self-pity.
		John Rechy is the recipient of the PEN-USA West's Lifetime Achievement Award (he was the first novelist to be awarded the prize) and the Publishing Triangle's William Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award.
	www.amazon.fr /City-Night-John-Rechy/dp/0802130836 (567 words)

	John Rechy
		John Rechy's new novel is a return to the themes and scenes of his classic, best-selling City of Night and a bittersweet memorial to a lost world -- gay Los Angeles in the moment before AIDS.
		Rechy's sizzling literary response Coming of Night is as exciting as it is chilling." -- Pamela Warrick, Los Angeles Times; "[Rechy] very nearly touches greatness.
		John Rechy is recipient of the Pen-USA-West Lifetime Achievement Award and winner of the William Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement through Triangle Publishing
	www.queertheory.com /histories/r/rechy_john.htm (907 words)

	ReadOut - OutSmart - This Issue
		Rechy’s language and characters were very “in your face,” but written in a very beautiful, poetic prose.
		He believes Rechy’s autobiographical novel was the first real look at life for a gay man and the big city’s underground homosexual society during one of this nation’s most conservative eras.
		John liked the resulting article, and we talked about me writing his biography.” As a result, Casillo spent the next three years getting to know Rechy before completing the biography.
	www.outsmartmagazine.com /issue/i11-03/a-7-ReadOut.php (1746 words)

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		Writer, activist, hustler, bodybuilder John Rechy was born on March 10, 1934 in El Passo Texas.
		Rechy is the recipient of two coveted Lifetime Achievement Awards: PEN-USA-West’s 1997 Lifetime Achievement Award and The Publishing Triangle’s William Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement.
		In September 2000, a CD-Rom of his life and works--"Memories and Desire: The Worlds of John Rechy" (produced through the Annenberg Center at the University of Southern California)--debuted at the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles to an overflow crowd.
	www.365gay.com /lifestylechannel/intime/months/03-march/Rechy.htm (587 words)

	Amazon.com: The Coming of the Night (Rechy, John): Books: John Rechy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rechy's overused symbol of the "Sant'Anas" was eventually annoying and his pervasive sexual language and scenarios had no artistic merit whatsoever and no purpose other than thoroughly grossing out this (gay) reader.
		While Rechy retains his usual competence in portraying man-to-man action, his misperceptions on SM are still all too present.
		Rechy is especially effective in his recording of the so-called SandM scene--obviously he has known it and now explores it with brutal candor, as it is. Beyond its subject, the novel asserts why Rechy is today considered one of our foremost writers.
	www.amazon.com /Coming-Night-John-Rechy/dp/0802137423 (1981 words)

	Grumpy Old Bookman: August 2004
		John Rechy’s famous novel begins with a couple of paragraphs which, for my money, constitute the most mesmerising start of any novel ever written.
		But John had realised that there is a hell of a lot of competition in the music business (as in writing) and he had decided to help himself along a bit.
		John had noticed that the small-town newspapers in England (and, I dare say, everywhere else in the world) are keen to find material to fill up the white space.
	grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_grumpyoldbookman_archive.html (15593 words)

	Used Book Central Search / author: Rechy, John
		Rechy, John: Very Good+ in yellowing, lightly soiled DJ Gay Studies Grove Press (1867) 1st Edition HC yellowing to the pages, slight bumping to the spine ends.
		Rechy is the author of The City of Night.
		Rechy, John: Very Good Grove Press New York 1979 F First Edition H Hard Cover Slight fading and rubbing to jacket (chiefly at edges); slight internal browning to edges.
	www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc_browse/searchbooks,author,Rechy_John.html (425 words)

	Welcome to Gay City News, the Newspaper New York deserves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		John Rechy’s powerful, hypnotic charm first won him clients as a hustler and later bewitched a generation of readers with a series of novels beginning with City of Night.
		The reader is left wondering, “Did Rechy really do that, or was it a scene from one of his books?” The last thing a biographer needs to do is further blur the line between Rechy and his fictional alter egos.
		John Rechy, author of City of Night, is the subject of a new biography from Alyson Publications.
	www.gaycitynews.com /gcn30/blowjob.html (1989 words)

	Unzipped.net> 01/03> Review> Book Review> Outlaw: The Lives and Careers of John Rechy
		John Rechy is one of those weirdly fascinating people whose life story includes a revolving cast of characters that would make John Waters proud: drag queens, street hustlers, rock stars, movie directors and literary giants.
		What makes this raw and complex biography so intriguing is that Casillo worked closely with Rechy, as well as with Rechy's friends, family, colleagues and admirers to expose the secrets behind the man who penned the novels City of Night, Numbers, Rushes and The Sexual Outlaw.
		Described as both a sexual outlaw and literary provocateur, Rechy is all of that and more.
	www.unzipped.net /features/0301/U0301_review1.asp (230 words)

	John Rechy \| City of Night \| Sam Spiegel
		Whatever it is, Rechy is not my kind of guy, although I must say, the picture of him facing page 137 quite knocked me off my pins.
		It was hard for John to establish a romantically emotional attachment with any woman because that would be a threat to the loyalty to his mother.
		Rechy wrote about it with courage and honesty and should be honored for doing so.
	www.ralphmag.org /BY/john-rechy.html (1540 words)

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